Please report any broken links or trouble you might come across to the Webmaster.Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible.

NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Patch on left contributed by Mike Smolinski, on right by Y.M.Umar,
CPO (Ret.),
Turkish Navy

This plaque was unveiled 20 March 1995 by His Excellency Major General P.M. Jeffery OA MC, Governor of Western Australia to commemeorate the sacrifices made by Allied submarined that operated out of Fremantle, Western Australia during WW II.

Photo courtesy of Ron Reeves.

TCG Canakkale (S-333)

582k

CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 16: Turkish ambassador Feridun C. Erkin shaking hands with American submarine base chief of staff after receiving the submarine Bumper (SS-333), to be renamed and put into service in the Turkish Navy.

Photo by US Navy/US Navy/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com.

197k

Bumper (SS-333) underway, after conversion as a Guppy I and before transfer to Turkey, November 1950.

Turkish Family photo of Snorkeled Submarines June 1955. The boats were originally numbered with the letter D-#. After all the subs underwent snorkel conversion at Phila. Naval Ship Yard, their numerical was changed to S-#, which was still occurring when this photo was taken.
Submarines pictured from left to right outboard of their tender TCG Erkin:Gur (S-20), Cerbe (S-23),I I.nönü (D-1) (1 or 2 days later (S-17)]Canakkale (S-21),Sakarya (S-19),Preveze (S-22) & Inonu (S-18).

In the background are two floating drydocks and in the far right are 4 Ellyson Class Destroyers:Gaziantep (D-344), {ex-Landsdowne (DD-486)}Giresun (D-345), {ex-McCalla (DD-488)}Gelibolu (D-346), {ex-Buchanan (DD-484)}Gemlik (D-347), {ex-Lardner (DD-487)} and the Yavuz (C-11), ex-German Battlecruiser Goeben.

Photo courtesy of Sait Kucuk, CPOS (Ret),Turkish Navy.

171k

The ex-Bumper (SS-333) after transfer to Turkey as Canakkale (S-333) appears in the harbor of Valetta in Malta, 12 April 1961.